Nine O'Clock Gun

Local nameNine O'Clock Gun
LocationVancouver, Canada

The 9 O'Clock Gun is a cannon located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, that is ordinarily fired daily at 21:00 PT. From 30 March to 30 April 2020, the gun was set to fire at 19:00, in support of local health care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.. However, the 9 O'Clock Gun continued to be fired at 7 p.m. until 31 July 2020, when it was switched back to its eponymous 9pm time.

The gun is a 12-pound muzzle-loaded naval cannon, cast in Woolwich, England in 1816. The crests of King George III and Henry Phipps, 1st Earl of Mulgrave, Master-General of the Ordnance at the time the cannon was cast, are on the barrel. Seventy-eight years later, in about 1894, it was brought to Stanley Park by the Department of Marine and Fisheries to warn fishermen of the 18:00 Sunday close of fishing. On October 15, 1898, the gun was fired for the first time in Stanley Park at noon.

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Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9_O'Clock_Gun

Coordinates 49°17'52.904" N -123°7'3.033" E

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